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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Wilmington, NC
NWS Wilmington, NC issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 15, 2024, 1:21 PM EDT for Horry County, South Carolina. It was in force for 36 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 15, 2024, 1:21 PM EDT (17:21 UTC)
- Expired
- May 15, 2024, 1:57 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, NC
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 1.0 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Horry County, SC
The radar
The Wilmington radar (KLTX), 51 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 15, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Charleston AFB, SC (KCHS), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 147 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1051 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -18 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 708 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 58 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 108 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Wilmington, NC wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 15, 9:38 AM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 15, 9:38 AM EDT, 3 hours 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Wilmington, NC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 8:30 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Bladen | 16 min |
| May 14, 9:00 PM EDT | Rip Current Statement | ILM | Brunswick | 23 hr |
| May 15, 6:25 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Brunswick | 20 min |
| May 15, 6:45 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Brunswick | 30 min |
| May 15, 1:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 52 min | |
| May 15, 4:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Columbus | 29 min |
| May 15, 4:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Pender | 36 min |
| May 15, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Columbus | 46 min |
| May 15, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Pender | 29 min |
| May 15, 5:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Brunswick, Columbus, New Hanover | 29 min |
| May 15, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | New Hanover | 27 min |
| May 15, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 61 min | |
| May 15, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Bladen | 30 min |
| May 15, 6:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 40 min |
| May 15, 7:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Bladen | 67 min |
| May 15, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | ILM | 60 min | |
| May 15, 7:33 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Robeson | 42 min |
| May 15, 4:21 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Florence | 39 min |
| May 15, 1:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Horry | 25 min |
| May 15, 2:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Horry | 26 min |
| May 15, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Florence, Williamsburg | 35 min |
| May 15, 5:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Florence | 29 min |
| May 15, 5:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Georgetown | 31 min |
| May 15, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown, Williamsburg | 53 min |
| May 15, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Horry | 36 min |
| May 15, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Horry | 27 min |
| May 15, 7:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | ILM | Georgetown | 29 min |
| May 15, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 63 min |
| May 15, 7:17 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 28 min |
| May 15, 7:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILM | Georgetown | 32 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.